From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Pointers, arrays and assignments Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 18:58:36 -0800 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32B8AF5C.5CCC@cs.com> References: <32B3AA6F DOT 1302 AT synapse DOT net> <01bbea60$9331e020$23705380 AT maan-m DOT -hamze> <597u60$1r0$1 AT thor DOT atcon DOT com> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp102.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Bill Davidson wrote: > > I think this is why people like C++ (and even *eek* java)! Or bother to read the instructions first. Even in Pascal you have to use the 'new' command when working with pointers. Learning C++ without first learning C is a bit like playing with fire without knowing that it can burn you. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich, aka Fighteer I | fighteer AT cs DOT com | | Call me for your free AOL disk! | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | | Chain letters, work-at-home schemes, free long distance, etc., | | are ILLEGAL! Keep the Internet litter-free... don't SPAM. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------